It has not been a positive week for Harry Winks, his Sampdoria teammates or anyone at the club as a severed pig’s head was delivered to the training ground over the weekend, BBC Sport have revealed.
After missing the entirety of the first part of the campaign through injury, Winks has enjoyed an excellent month and a half from a personal point of view, with the midfielder getting regular starts under his belt and impressing for the Serie A club.
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Although things are looking up for the on-loan Spurs star, Sampdoria have still struggled to get results with any sort of consistency.
Dejan Stankovic’s men are rooted to be bottom of the Serie A table and need to start picking up wins soon if they are to have any hope of preserving their top-flight status.
BBC Sport have now reported that a severed pig’s head was delivered to the headquarters of the Italian club on Saturday on the back of their loss against Bologna.
The package was reportedly addressed to former club president Massimo Ferrero and current vice-president Antonio Romei, with a note warning “the next heads will be yours”.
Sampdoria called it a “serious act of intimidation” and confirmed that the police had been notified.
The report adds that a bullet had been delivered to the club’s offices in January with more threats.
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The police should certainly be taking this seriously and look to apprehend the perpetrators. It is pitiful that some idiots send death threats over football.
Although Harry Winks is playing well at the moment, it is not ideal for the 26-year-old to at such a toxic environment at the moment, with Sampdoria looking destined to go down.
However, the midfielder will certainly not be lacking any motivation as he would know that he needs to continue performing well to put himself in the shop window in the summer and get back to the levels he showed under Mauricio Pochettino.
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